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Shrubs, shrublets or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, petiolate or sessile, sometimes leaf bases decurrent, sometimes auriculate, ovate, obovate, elliptic to linear or lanceolate, margin entire to dentate, tomentose or tomentose only beneath (hair type B). Capitula radiate or disciform, 1-3 together, sessile or shortly pedunculate on short, axillary branchlets. Involucre campanulate; bracts in 3-6 rows, lanceolate to linear, ciliate towards apex, woolly on back; stereome undivided. Receptacle slightly convex, honeycombed, epaleate. Marginalflorets female, in 1 row, white, blue, purple or green; corolla sometimes shortly strap-shaped or filiform, with 3-toothed, oblong or oblong-elliptic lamina longer than tube; staminodes often present. Style 2-branched. Discflorets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow, white or purple, rarely green; tube widened above, glabrous, with 5 linear or lanceolate lobes. Anthers ecalcarate or calcarate, caudate; apical appendage flat; endothecial tissue polarised. Style bifid; style branches obtuse, dorsally with short papillose, obtuse sweeping hairs not reaching furcation; stigmatic surface basally separated but apically converging. Cypselas brown, cylindrical, 9-11-ribbed, glandular-hairy and sparsely hairy with elongated twin hairs. Pappus persistent, of subbarbellate or subplumose bristles in 2 or 3 rows.